Hawthorne Effect

           The Hawthorne Effect is a form of reactivity in which an individual becomes more productive as a result of being singled out. The term Hawthorne effect comes from a factory called Hawthorne Works where experiments on factory workers took place from 1924 to 1932. The experiment was to see if the workers became more productive in higher levels of light rather than a lower level of life. An example for the Hawthorne effect is the video that my teacher showed the class with the people jaywalking in the middle of the street. A lower amount of people jaywalked when the kid held up the poster board telling them don’t jaywalk. This means that people don’t do certain things when they are being watched or feel like they are receiving unwanted attention.